Combination garment.



No-844,508. I PATBNTEDFEBQ 19", 1907.

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COMBINATION GARMENT. APPLICATION FILED P333. 1906.

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GQM3BNATEGN @AQMENT.

Specification of Letters Eatent.

Patented Feb. 1 1907.

Application filed February 5, 1906. Serial Ho. 299,553,

range and combine these parts so that the wearer can readily put on andtake oil the garment and adjust the same to wearers having differentfigures; to combine the parts in such manner to avoid unnecessary full-vness around the waist andprovide the desired fullness about the hip makethe parts of suitable'form and pattern to facilitate the manufacture ofgarments-of the kind described.

I accomplish these objects by the structure shown in the accompanyingdrawings, in

which-- I Figure-.1 is afront elevation of a garment constructedaccording to my invention. Fig. 2 is an underneath plan of said garment.Fig.3.is a section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a verticalsection of'the lower garment, including the combined skirt and drawers,taken on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2. 5 is a pattern of one side of thecombined skirt-front and drawers-front. Fig. 6 is a pattern of. Fig. 7is a pattern of the skirt-back.

The lower garment is formed by sewing togetherthe skirt-front 1, thedrawers-back 2-, and the skirt-back 5 along the lines 6, 7 ,and' 8.The-lower edge 9 of extend. along the line 10 shown in Figs.'5 and 6,but will be free from the drawers-legs ex cept at each end. The seambetween the edges 6 and 7 of the skirt-front and drawers.- back will beextended below the line 10 to the lower edge of said parts. The edge1110f the drawers-back is sewed to the edge 12 of the skirt-front alongthe dotted line 13. When the combined skirt and drawersare provided withan upper garment 14, the latter is sewed to .the upper edges 15, 16, and17 of the combined skirt and drawers. The parts are here suitably formedto receive a tie string or ribs and legs, and to.

one side of the drawers-back.

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the skirt-back will.

bon 18 at the'waist-line along which the fullness of the material may begathered. The lower endsof thedrawers-legs are turned up' wardly at 19,as indicated in Fig. 4, and turned back or hemmed at 20 to receive apuckering-string or elastic cord, upon which the material is gathered,soas to hold that part of the garment in proper osition above the knees ofthe wearer. T 1e, material of the skirt-front is cut of proper size to.QIllllb of the overlapping at 20 and 22, and allow for the plaits 23and 24. The parts 1 and 2 are made in duplicate. The two drawers-backs 2are sewed togeth or along the edge 25 (shown in Fig. 6) .to iorm theseam 26. {Shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4.) i v The edge27 of the skirt frontl is folded or turned in from the upper part of. the line 13 along theline 28 to the waistline, (see Fig. 5,) so as to-give the overlappingpart 2 1 the ell'ect of a )lait, as shown in Fig. 3.

-T e upper garment 1 is also made openin liront and overlapping at 29,as shown in Fig.

Theoverlappmg parts at 29.1nay be pro,- yided wlth buttons or othersuitable fastenmg means.

What I claim as my 'nvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

a 1. A combination garment comprising an upper or waist. part open atthefront, a slurtback extending downwardly therefrom, and

a skirt-front fend drawers-back extending downwardly front said upperpart, being of greater length than said skirt-back and having theirlower edges turned inwardly and up-v wardly and gathered to fit thelogsof-the wearer, the lower exposed parts of said skirtfront anddrawers-back b'eing fluslrwi'th the lower edge of said skirt-back; saiddrawcrs back: consisting of two parts united at the crotch, andsaidskirt-front being divided. at the middle and plaited and adapted tooverlap at its upper middle part,

2. A combination garment comprising an upper or waist part 0 en at thefront, a com bmed skirt-front 'anc 'drmrcrs-back'ext coding downwardlytherefrom and havingihoir lower edges turnedinwardly and upwardly andgathered to fit the legs of the wearer, a skirt-back extendingdownwardly from said upper part'and secured along its outer edges to theoutside of each drawers-leg, the lower edge of said skirt-back being{lush with the exposed'partof the skirt-front and-drawersback; saiddrawersiegs consisting of two Signed at New York this 31stday'oflJanuarts united at the crotch, and said skirtary,1906. I outbeing open its entire length in t-he line of the opening of the upper orWa'ist'part and V E 5 being plaited and adapt-ed to overlap. andWitnesses:

present; the appeamnce of the front of JOHN J EARLRIDGE; closed plai ted skirt I AUGUST JQFENDEVILLE.

